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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Son Of A Bitches Brew - August 2012 August 19th, 2012
Kawabata Mokoto’s indestructible acid-improvisers swap their in-commune ’60s psychedelic playlist for a stack of ’70s electric Miles Davis jams. Jazz squares splattered on their spats in horror when confronted with Miles’ most out there 1975 monstrosities, Agharta and Pangea, both recorded on the same day in Osaka, but Japanese fans lapped up these otherwise despised…
Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 The Arts Journal - By Anna Millar - August 16th, 2012
Watching Stewart Lee perform is akin to observing a sea squirt settling on a rock and attempting to eat itself. One of the scene’s smartest talents, Lee is back on the Fringe, gnawing away at comedy conventions. Not for him the easy laughs, Lee’s are increasingly shows of an altogether more complex persuasion. It’s his…
Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 The Scotsman - August 14th, 2012
DECRYING the “slow death of the Fringe” days before performing at one of the Festival’s most renowned venues may sound a tad counter-intuitive – but this is Stewart Lee: sultan of satire, comedy idealist and an icon for those of an anti-populist bent. And at £15 a ticket Lee’s Carpet Remnant World at the revamped…
Peter Cusack – Sounds From Dangerous Places - August 2012 August 12th, 2012
On the first of these two discs, Chernobyl, Peter Cusack presents unadorned field recordings from in and around the exclusion zone that still surrounds the failed Russian reactor. His radiometer whirrs in a deserted village. An abandoned Ferris wheel clanks mournfully. Flourishing wildlife twitters as power cables buzz. Transplanted peasants sing laments for land they…
Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 The List - By Claire Sawyers - August 11th, 2012
Stewart Lee’s 2012 Fringe kicked off in typically provocative vein, when his Guardian article (headlined ‘The Slow Death of the Edinburgh Fringe’) delivered an industry-savvy knee to the groin of corporate comedy promoters. While PRs dealt with the aftermath from his wrath, the 25-time Fringe veteran holds court this year at the chandeliered, revamped Assembly…